what is the purpose for parameter 'CI'

[sean-xia]

Please find the ‘CI' at the bottom of this text python3 ./main_fedavg.py
--gpu $GPU
--dataset $DATASET
--data_dir $DATA_PATH
--model $MODEL
--partition_method $DISTRIBUTION
--client_num_in_total $CLIENT_NUM
--client_num_per_round $WORKER_NUM
--comm_round $ROUND
--epochs $EPOCH
--batch_size $BATCH_SIZE
--client_optimizer $OPT
--lr $LR
--ci $CI #how dose this parameter influnce the trainning results?

[lvan-123]

        """
        Note: CI environment is CPU-based computing. 
        The training speed for RNN training is to slow in this setting, so we only test a client to make sure there is no programming error.
        """
        if self.args.ci == 1:
            break